The business of Tragedy

The business of tragedy...
This is one of the most profitable venture that exists in this world and people tend to approve of it the most socially,morally and emotionally...
Hey wait a minute... am I talking crap.. business of tragedy.. how is it possible??

Well friends if you see that not all tragedies are money making milking cows,for exapmle when there was an earthquake in Gujarat people dod not make money there, rather this was truely one of the worst kind of tragedy.. but imagine other situations specially where the tragedy has occurred due to human error...
Don't believe! Keep reading on................

the first example I would keep that is of freshness is the Bhopal Gas Tragedy......

1980's was the time sonce the catastrophe took place but look at them now... still they are fighing for justice.. well that is not a problem. Infact that is good and very much humanly right.. but what is wrong is the fact that some people and organisation that tend to make money out of it.

I happened to attend a 'talk' with Indra Kumar, the writer of 'Animal People', at St. Stephens College,Delhi.Actually I had met him first at Jaipur Literature Festival where he himself had told me that he would be visiting Delhi because of the invitation from St. Stephens. Quite a chubby but influential writer... the book was good and I did buy it afterwards.

But what attracted my attention was the presence of an NGO supporting th cause of the Bhopalis there. Well initially I was quite impressed and also of the fact that their efforts were bearing fruit and that it was indeed making the Central as well as the State Govt. think about their state of being.
But slowly and gradually things began to dawn on me. Are they truely fighting for a cause.Last year too they had staged a dharna(protest) at Jantar Mantar but it only led to unfulfilled promises and so this yar they were the repeat the same stint and that they would stage a walk from Bhopal to Delhi on their legs.......
But I happened to think that these Gandhian ways of protesting and dharnas and stuff what meaning did they have or are they ust being manipulated by the NGOs. Well last year they did not get the result, this year hey wanted to walk all the way from Bhopal to Delhi to protest so what next..... Till when are they going to show such stints.... Well when they would walk from Bhpal a truck with complete medical aid would be there to help and medicate those who fall ill and more so even they happen to get tired....Why this medication....

The point is... the victims of such tragedies are already living a life of a living dead. Then how much do you want to kill them further.... Why not go after a full fledged war.. why not brak some offcies and stuff and go for a complete hunger strike that would be fast unto death..I mean they are already dead, just a piece of diseased meat hanging on a structure of bones... why not lead the remaining life for a meaningful purpose,why not fight for true justice with such a vengeance that would tantacially amount to either do or die... Its their problem... what will the world do at the most.... show their empathy and talk about the blasphemes ways of the govt. IS this what they want? Is empathy and solidarity going to fulfill their stomach,going to bring them justice... even though it has not been found who the real culprit was or the gas company was alone the sole responsible for such a henoius act...
Thus ultimately the conclusion lies that something is wrong somewhere.....
The problem is the NGOs.. they won't leave the people to die in peace and just give them a raw hope justice..... and will continue to mop up money from other sources like donations, selling of "I support the Victims" T Shirts and other such goodies at a considerably high price... stage a dramatic protest march where the protesters act like puppets and then the show is over....
If that is not all there is more... There is more... what is the biggest impact of globalisation.. that companies set up banches all over the world and thus the existing national company would face difficulties in terms of their monopolistic ways...
So what do these national companies do.... try there best to prove the ill effects of the foreign invaders by supporting such tragedies.. so that they ,the foreign companies are not able to enter India... and there you are lo and behold... people would not sentimentally approve.. it because they are human animals devoid of the power to think and thus if they would not approve of such things.. the govt' would find it difficult approving any thing of such importance and there ou are the selfish,monopolistic Indian companies are successful...........And all this is nothing but the business Of Tragedy..........

Another prime example is the Irag war....
US went ahead with the war to revive its weapons industry,to prove its superiority in the world and finally to drink some oil....

So what is the final outcome... Irag is destroyed and US companies and foreign ones too are having a jolly good time rebuilding Irag all with the tax payers money.....
The business of Tragedy...

Have you seen the movie Shindler's List...Watch it! Wonderful movie and an all time classic.
Here Shindler is a struggling German businessman who finds an oppotunity to make money when the German govt. takes anti Jewish steps like confining then in ghettos and stopping them from carrying on further commercial activities......
But Shindler utilizes this tragedy to make alot of money but ya its a different thing that his heart changes afterwards and he saves alot of Jews from going into the hrrible gas chamber..
Anyways here was the beautiful example of the gas tragedy.....

Making money out of tragedies has become a lucrative business.. recently farmers in Punjab had a bad cultivation...
Soon they were brought to Delhi wearing Sexx 'save farmers' T Shirts protesting against the govt.... and a few private enterprises... the circus lasted for a day..... and then it was over....everyone went home smiling....
Another is the Singur tragedy.. I fail to understand what was the big issue about such a thing.. the govt... was willing to relocate them(farmers) to some other place,but still the protests went on... Why MAmta Banerjee and a few NGOs found a way to milk the govt. as well as TATA. I don't think they succeeded.

The History is full of such examples.....
The Moral OF the story is : dont give to such sentimental craps publisied by ridiculous NGOs untill and unless the fight is good enough to bear results and not a media circus......
Secondly when you see a tragedy... then remember.. someone is making money out there... :-) Especially the tragedies due to human...

Keep reading .. will be back with more interesting stuff....
till then
Sayonara

Back from the wild goose chase

aaaaaAAH!
Thats the cry that comes out first when you happen to finish your end semester exams in an engineering college,mine finished on 23rd may and still I have not recovered andits been four days since the exams were over.....
It has been a long 23 days marathon that included the practicals and all nonsense viva and stuff...and you could add an extra 10 to 15 days to it.... so in short 1 and a half month of total crap time.........
And you knw the effect that these 45 days has on an individual..... I will give you my example.. hope you would not laugh... but I guess..anyways..........
Well first comes the difficulty of getting into the exam mode.... since most of us are used to the last minute cramming and these being an engineering subject....which actually cant be crammed.. so at the end of the day we tend to break all laws of the universe.... so wen we try to cram a noncrammable subject... the first thing you tend to loose is your power of thought...and thinking ability.... so we tend to mug up all so that agood answer is vomitted on the paper...
So after the exams the first thing you feel is lost... you have to suddenly come out of the trance to feel and think again.....it took me 4 days for it....
The 2nd thing you feel sleepy... suddenly you feel as if the whole world is devoid of a good sleep. You feel a typical sense of tiredness and a sense of drearyness that is killing.... I slept for almost 14 hours with only an hour gap in between....and you feel so cool after that my god.... sleep seems to be like a drug at that moment.....
But the worst thing I feel that happens to me during this time is that my waistelines starts to increase again... and I grow a little heavier again... all my efforts fot the Operation Reduction goes waste.. alll those crap food,tonnes of tea and coffee with sugar shows the effect....
And the biggest thing I feel I loose within this period is my creativity and vision... suddenly the world starts to seem to enoromous,unconquerable,evil and what not...... and it takes me sometime to revert back to my old state of naturalness and confidence.
Anyways,its one year more and I hope after that this chapter of my life shall be closed........

But why does such a thing take place..... is there any significance to it... this is the state of 80% of the engineering students country-wide.....
One of the basic facts that I believe that occurs is that Enginnering for most of us is an unknown adventure.... which actually gets worse as you happen to realize that there is no purpose or signifince out of it.
Moreover given the state of our education system,our professors ensure that we adapt a crap culture of mugging and vomitting in the exams.....
Engineering is essentially creativity,we are not knowledge creaters,rather we are the ones who create myriads of applications out of one single knowledge.... and creativiy cannot be put to use into something which you don't love and like.....
Given the rigidness of our education system,this is the common state of distress for most of us.
We don't happen to like what we are studying,we don't have any purpose of the subjects that we are studying, the question of 'WHY' of everything remains unanswered in everything.
Moreover we think something else before we come here and something else is found in the college and we go out with something else of this college. THe whole journey remains a wonder and once we are out of this Alice in Wonderland and into the open world,that is the time we get the real pain,the real shrug.

The real problem that we face is the lack of sense for direction,where we are going,what we are studying what we should be studying and all the stuff.
That's why I have called this post 'back from the wild goose chase' because that is the state of affairs in our lives at the moment.

Anywyas coming back to the main theme....
..is there a solution to this directionless life that we lead. There is.But we have to let go off certain good for the great,then only all the possibilities would exist otherwise,there is no chance,not a ray of hope,only disillusionment.This is something which is actually very tough and even as I say I too don't have the real ability to fight this off and come out a winner. But yes I am trying,and I hope to succeed in the near future......
till then
sayonara

Treading an unknown path

Reading an unknown path.
This is I think one of the most adventurous and revered thing that an individual would want to do in his lifetime.
Treading an unknown path.
We have living Histories of people like Steve Jobs and Bill gates who travelled that unknown path,broken myths,customs and everything and have become the most respected and feared people in the corporate world.
Yet both had dropped school in their college life.
Like them there are many more examples.Dhirubhai too is our best Indian examples and coupled with him are all those Gujaratis who have travelled that uncommon ways ands have set examples for those unknowns. If that was not all then there were people like who even got into the IIMs and IITs and did not think twice when they finally made up their mind to go anew and create that path which might take centuries to follow up again.

So what makes an individual take up such extreme steps. History is full of such examples. If we were to talk in terms of BC then there is always Aristotle to quote who despite eing from an aristrocratic background decided to go on his own.
In search of wilderness. maybe that describes them better. Steve Jobs,when he left the college didn't even know what he wanted. Though bill gates on the contrary always had a vision. He moved clear goal and a determined spirit. Yet he dropped out in his pre final year of his college.
Aristotle too went the same.
Yet they were all labelled insane. Yet in their course of insanity they changed History and became living Histories themselves.

The first thing that stikes me is why do they want to take such a step. The answer I guess lies in their individuality. It probably seems that they are born with a different set of traits,a soul that commands free will,never to be tied down to anything. A heart that is rebellious,which does not find any meaning in the commonly pursuits of a common mind.
While most other success stories that we have read have been a success of struggle,but these were the men who created histroy by choice and acknowledgement of giving up something that sounded the good.

One of the primary reason that I personally feel makes people take a different and an extreme route is in their satisfaction.Yes by satisfaction I mean pure and happy heart which is content of what it has creates with its soul.
Well what I mean to say here is for most people success is a relative term.For example when thousands of people are running after something which they think is good and one such individual who has won it comes out to be a success. But one problem that exists here is that this success was a relative term. He got here because others could not. So he feels proud not because he has achieved something rather because he has defeated many.It is the social sanction given by the society that makes him feel proud.

By treading a different path what I mean to say is to find that one thing that gives you the utmost happiness. I know everyone cannot be an entrepreneur in the true 16th century Italian sense, but yes what I know is that this question can only be answered by an individual who has gone thorugh the ordeal of trying to be an entrepreneur and finally been unsuccessful. The rest they die with the notion that If I could......'
More different from the dictionay meaning of entreprenuership,I would like o define it in a philosophical sense that it is trading an unkown path, a path that leads to you ultimately and at the end of the road you find yourself.
A balance between the heart and the mind is inevitable though because as one treads the path he cannot and just cannot ignore the world inhabited by other men. Thats why Steve ?Jobs,even though he was successful, failed once in his lifetime but then he again rose and this time he remains a constant success.
The point is,in the initial haydays of the struggle,we should not be afraid of loosing something or anything,especially those which we have not achieved, but once we reach a stage of life where we have gained something,we seriously cannot think of loosing it again. No wonder Warren Buffet says: "The first rule is to never lose money and the second rule is to never forget the first."
Remember,if at this moment of your life if you are striving for success, you cannot remain in the loop if what frightens you is the cake that you are going at he end, but yes once you have found your path,achieved something,then you should always remember that there are many sitting there who would want to eat your cake even if it does not matter that it would give them satisfaction and hat the cake is of their taste.Since they have never cared to find what their taste is like,they will continue to get jealous of yo because they see you enjoying your cake and they come to terms to the fact that your cake must be something special.
Anyways more on this later.

GOING TO ISB,HYDERABAD.... :)

Hey ppl,
Don't worry I am not going to ISB as a Management student.

Recently ISB had organised a wordsworth contest at the national level where in winners who would be selected would be called to ISB for a 2 days 1 night trip to the coveted campus at Hyderabad all expenses paid.
Here is the link do visit it to know about it more:
http://isb.edu/wordsworth/

Here I am sharing with you the essay that I had submitted in the contest. As a matter of fact only 2 Engineering students have been selected.The list would be given at the bottom.
My idea of sharing this is to encourage you people to participate in such things and look beyond the college learning. Some experiences are worth gaining. I hope you all understand.Participating in this contest has atleast vindicated my idea to be good with words thus if you too participate,it shall uncover your hidden talents.

Here is the essay

TOPIC:

Do high quality business schools provide nations with a competitive advantage?

The concept of schools imparting business education which is essentially learnt through variable experience is itself a revolutionary concept. Moreover the need of the corporate world that these schools fulfill and have been doing so for a couple of hundred years is amazing,not ignoring the fact that almost every country wih a proper functioning economy is very much focused on imparting business education through these schools.

India today is a rising nation economically.The economics of this country has undergone a sea change in the last decade or so.As the country progress towards its ancient status of being called ‘the ‘Golden Bird’ it has to face the upcoming complexity that would arise in today’s ways of doing business. As the world economy gets integrated like as if we were trading in a village,the concept though provokes a simplistic message is essentially a very complicated one behind this veil.Given the above mentioned facts the role of a business school becomes imperative so as to provide the necessary skills in this fast changing economic world. Business schools give the corporate a polished and finished gem which otherwise would take years to shine through the grinds of business experience. Also it prepares the cadre of business soldiers with the right dynamics to adjust swiftly in the overly volatile and changing economy. Not only that,the increased corporate and government sponsorship of projects in business schools suggest the important intellectual contribution that these schools give back in return. The Indian business scene ,which is very much dominated by family businesses have of sudden felt the tinge of shortened man power with an enterprising and entrepreneurial bent.Business schools, by making such a requisite curriculum can essentially fulfill this demand and have been doing so for a few years.India being a young player in this complicated world economy and thus for India to sustain its paced growth and to achieve a mammoth size,entrepreneurs who can deliver from the word ‘go’ are needed.Business schools not only help in educating such talents in its womb, but also teaching them the nitty gritty of business through case studies thus providing entrepreneurs with a manager’s bent of performance.

Business schools play a vital role by also providing requisite research and advisory services to pivotal bodies like the finance ministry and the planning commission. However of all the good endeavor that these schools take, a lot can be done especially with India as its focus.The economy of India is so regionally unbalanced that business school could help by taking initiatives keeping in focus the economically backward regions of the country.India being such a diverse country, if it would be possible that business education be brought to the grass root level so that MBAs who can work from that level are produced then I think nothing better could happen to India than this holistic growth pattern that it would follow rather progressing in such a way that the common Indian does not even feel the shine of the progress.

Thus Business Schools can play a vital role in changing the business scene of India and thus her economy for the better and the future.

Ravi Manoram

Roll no.: 2K5/IT/941

BE (IT)

Delhi College Of Engineering

Bawana Road,

New Delhi:85

Phone:09911103257

Here is the list of winners:

Submission ID	First name	Last name	College	Location
WWEC00419	Suharsh	Sinha	National Law School of India University	Bangalore
WWEC00282	Aayush	Madhogoria	St.Xavier’s College	Kolkata
WWEC00354	Diwakar	Kishore	National Law School of India University	Bangalore
WWEC00391	Swati	Ganapathi	St.Joseph’s College of Commerce	Bangalore
WWEC00274	Muneer	Ariff	Kasturbha Medical College	Manipal
WWEC00317	Swati	Kaul	Delhi University	Delhi
WWEC00335	Namrata	Chatterjee	South City College	Kolkata
WWEC00406	Ravi	Manoram	Delhi College of Engineering	Delhi
WWEC00368	Shoaib	Shirazi	St.Joseph’s College of Commerce	Bangalore
WWEC00306	Apurv	Mishra	NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY	Mumbai
WWEC00374	Abhishek	Sanchety	Institute Of Technology, Banaras Hindu University	Banaras
WWEC00302	Sonam	Singh	Delhi University	New Delhi

Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish----Steve Jobs@Stanford 2005 MBA convocation ceremony

"You've Got To Find What You Love"

This is text of a speech by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar

Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. I'm

sharing it here and hoping that few young souls might find it

enlightening... the video from youtube shall be added in the left side of the blog...keep reading...its pretty old but yes inspiring

“I am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of

the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth

be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I

want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three

stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed

around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So

why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed

college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She

felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so

everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his

wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that

they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a

call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy;

do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found

out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father

had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final

adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents

promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that

was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents'

savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't

see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no

idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was

spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I

decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty

scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever

made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes

that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked

interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in

friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with,

and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one

good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what

I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be

priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in

the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every

drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and

didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class

to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about

varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about

what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically

subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten

years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all

came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first

computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that

single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces

or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s

likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped

out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal

computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of

course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in

college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect

them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow

connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny,

life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has

made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started

Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10

years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion

company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest

creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And

then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well,

as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run

the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But

then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a

falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I

was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult

life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the

previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton

as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and

tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and

I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly

began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at

Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in

love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the

best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being

successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less

sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative

periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another

company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would

become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer

animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation

studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I

returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the

heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful

family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired

from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed

it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm

convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I

did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it

is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the

only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And

the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found

it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll

know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better

and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't

settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each

day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made

an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked

in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day

of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And

whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I

need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever

encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost

everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment

or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only

what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best

way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You

are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the

morning, and it clearly showed a tumour on my pancreas. I didn't even

know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a

type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer

than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my

affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to

tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell

them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned

up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say

your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where

they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into

my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the

tumour. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when

they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying

because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is

curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I

get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to

you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely

intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to

die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has

ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the

single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old

to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too

long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be

trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's

thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner

voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and

intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole

Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was

created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park,

and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's,

before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with

typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in

paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and

overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalogue,

and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the

mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a

photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find

yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the

words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they

signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for

myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.”

Movie Review: RACE:read it even if u have seen the movie

"Tum kabhi jeet nahi paaye kyonki tum mujhe hamesha harane ki sochte the,mein kabhi haara nahi kyonki mein hamesha jeetne ki sochta tha"
"You never won because you always thought of defeating me,I never lost because I always thought of winning"
This is the apt tagline for the movie race....... Well it stars Saif Ali Khan,Akshay Khanna,Bipasha Basu,Katrina Kapoor,Anil Kapoor and Sameera Reddy. The movie is a delight and its great to see a mature product from Bollywood after such a long time. Its high time that Indian Cinema embraced realism and thus show its movies sticking to the reality.
Well the story goes on like this.Saif here is a successful businessman who has a younger brother which is played by Akshay Khanna......then there Kat as Saif's secretary and Bips as a successful model..... Anil (Bhalu dada)....tries to redo the 'jasoos karamchand' thing as Officer RD and Sameera as her half cracked yet sexy assistant. Saif plays a very hard souled business tycoon who never looses and yes he never misses the chance to teach his rivals a lesson if they don't follow the rule book and try defeating him using treacherous means.How he does it is worth watching in the film. Akshay on the other hand is his younger brother whom Saif loves alot and takes care of alot but on the other Akshay hates his elder brother and keeps intriguing as to when to destroy him. The fight between these two brothers is worth watching. Saif has been a winner through out his life since childhood. Akshay on the other hand has always been defeating by Saif since childhood,whether its sysle race or anything.Even their father gives his entire business to Saif leaving Akshay to be dependent on him.But the kindness and care of Saif is treated as alms by Akshay and he plots to kill him and take over the whole of business as well as the insurance money.

Now to tell the story further would be cheat you. Its full of twists and till the last there are only twists. Kat and Bips also have surprising roles which I would not like to give out.The only thing I can say that the devilish streak that Kat tries to wear looks extremely sexy on her.The moment when she purrs "You bet" into Akshay's ears in such an arousing tone is something Kat could only do. Her gorgeous,sweet,sexy but BAD image that she portrays in this movie is marvelous.Bips rocks as usual and this she gets intimate with Saif in many scenes.I wonder was it the body double or herself.But what does it matter to Saif.The Dober Man was all in all himself in every hot scene and he seems to be getting more and more comfortable day by day.
The stunts and actions are great.Abbas Mastaan has done his job well.The movie has good pace.The comedy by Anil Kapoor is well digestable. Johnny Lever rocks in the one scene he comes in.
The songs rock.Race theme songs are perfect for the dance mix loves while Zara zara leaves you panting and high.
The USP that I found in the movie was the theme that it showed.It was very realistic in the sense that here they show how evil is defeated through its own game plan. How the evil away with its deed but when it is treated in its own manner it crumbles like a house of cards.

Watch the movie if you haven't.Worth watching and alot to learn.If you have watched the movie with your nagging girlfriend who keeps adoring Saif and criticizing Kat and Bips and munching popcornsloudly,I suggest watch it alone again,on DVD or in the multiplex thats your choice. But do watch it.Its a nice movie.